The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-01-15
RELIGIOUS.


IiHa1 future. IS not and may never be
TIME present ie the only time for thee
! would not stay the years that wing,
Howe 81 my lot be cast,
Nor say, o sun, look back and bring
One iiav from out the past.
---Hesatiah BRftegqcoyfA.
History il the revelation Of Provi-
denee. Kossath
The highest exercise Of charity il
charity 70 the uncharitable.
The way Of every man is declara-
tive of the end Of every man.- Cecil.
4 thought embodied and embraced
IL fit words walks the earth a living
being
I believe that we cannot live better
than in seeking 70 become better
Socrates
Panperism has increased in London
from 90 in a j 900 in 1885 10 AZ in a
1000 in 1886.
Rev. Sam Jones is booked for lee
ture for DR.. Kings church, 44th street,
New York, about the middle Of Jan
nary
Receive Christ with al your heart.
As there is nothing in Christ that may
he refused, SO there is nothing in you
from which he must be excluded.
The man TO whom virtue is but the
ornament of character, something
over and above, not essential TO il, is
not YET a Marquis Of Lossie.
Out of the suffering comes the scri-
ous mind out Of the salvation the
grateful heart; ont Of endurance, for
titnde; out Of deliyeranee, faith
John RaskiB.
The New York Epaagelist states
that the first ward in that city con-
tains 10000 inhabitants, with one
church, three schools and 335 drink
ing saloons.
A woman's cry for total abstinence
on such an occasion her husband be-
ing sot excites our .enderest sym
pathy. But who will count that an
argument Y--Dr. Crosby, 1881.
The grand jury of Sioux City has
indicted ten men for conspiracy and
murder Of Rev. George NJ. Haddock.
Three of them have not yet been ar.
rested, but detectives are on their trail.
Perhaps God shows us things, some
times, and puts them away again for
us, give us, by-and-by, when we are
bigger; as mothers do with children's
playthings that are too beautiful for
them to have right off.
Henry Ward Beecher has said at
least one sensible thing since he re-
turned home. In his Thanksgiving
sermon he said II have no sym
pathy with an eight.honr man with a
fouteen-hour wife"
DR.. Crosby aciaims that in his wide
experience in New York most of the
suffering is due to lntemperance on the
part of some member Of the family of
those suffering" That is a tremend-
GUS count in the indictment against
alcohol.
When we come back from the bat.
tleiield, weary yet victorious, VIC may
look for our King of Peace coming
TO meet us with bread and wine, and
his own priestly blessing, that we NAV
be strengthened and refreshed by him.
self. r. HaVeygal.
The habit of considering the human
race as land of unfortnnates chasing
each other, each trying to get the nd
vantage of the one ahead engaged il
toilsome journey full of dangers, and
requiring the utmost exertions of eve.
cry member of the pr ~ to make the
way tolerably SALTS view alto
gether too one-sid d.
Here we stand. at this opening a
another year, a. though on marrow
neck Of land between Two seas. A
wear has gone, and a year is Coming
Mud these are on Hitherto aud our
lienfeforth. We have bad past
lie future lies before Us. The Hfh
erio is a matter OF record. TIL,
lienceforth is blank pages. And vel
how rapidly time fills mp these pages
and turns them over from the future
into the past.
The story u told Of little girl wht
upon returning from school was asked
what the text had been. She replied
Il keep my soul on top ~ Somcwhal
surprised TO hear such unfamiliar scrip
ture. her father inquired where th,
text conld be found. The child eager
" pointed ont the well known passage
il the writings Of the great Apostle in
which he says 81 keep my body
under = If the little girl had beer
The wisest philosopher 10 the universe
she eeHld not have coined phrase
which expresses more exactly the true
sense Of the Apostles language.
The smallest republic in the world
is little valley in the confines of
Belgium and Germany, containing four
square miles and two Thousand inhab-
itants. II is governed bya burgomas-
Ter, and ten councillors chosen by the
bnrgomaster. The revenue amounts
to $4,000 per annum to support the
schools and the army, the army CON
sisting Of one soldier, who is also the
policeman. There is one priest who is
paid BY the company that work the
sink mines. And yet the people are
mot happy because they have no post
age stamps of their own. Moresnet is
the name Of this republic.
That you may be weaned from the
world which fascinates yonr heart,
pray for the love of God, that the
light and paltry things Of the world
will be taateleas and irksome. What
DO cnE heavy hearts prove but that
other things are sweeter to us than
Aia VIII that we have not attained
y HE fusl mastery Of our trne free.
com tsaat pNr apnssaIp IL atill but
fainkly senlizels and lis bloasedness
not vet nrosaF and lrs,ss,..,, . ~. 49,.